While some companies successfully have
integrated videoconferencing into their travel programs as a means to cut costs
and reduce strain on frequent travelers, many others can tell tales of
expensive equipment sitting in lonely conference rooms under...

Like many large companies in the pharmaceutical
sector, arguably the most meetings-intensive industry of all and with perhaps
the greatest need due to regulation of detailed documentation of meetings and
event operations and expenditures, Johnson &...

BCD Travel's Advito consultancy issued a corporate travel price forecast for 2015 that shows generally modest year-over-year increases for airfares and hotel rates in most geographies. Projections in part are based on expectations for improving economic...

Workspace management supplier LiquidSpace is targeting the corporate market with the promise of a booking solution for small, single-day, short-term meetings, requiring no requests for proposals or contracts. The nearly four-year-old San Francisco-based...

Companies with no designated meetings departments sometimes delegate that responsibility to their travel managers. A 2012 Global Business Travel Association survey showed that 43 percent of 592 travel manager respondents were responsible for planning...

In Business Travel News' 2014 Strategic Meetings Management Survey, which reflected the views of travel and meeting buyers about the current state of SMM, many respondents predicted that globalized programs would be a key trend. While some companies are...

Kevin Maguire, former director of travel for intercollegiate athletics at the University of Texas at Austin, for the past few years has spoken out on the negative effects of hotel event pricing—when room rates double, triple or increase even more during...

With meetings demand on the rise, so too is the number of convention center hotels being built in the United States, according to real estate investment firm Jones Lang LaSalle. The firm counts five new convention center hotels scheduled to open by 2016,...

Hospitality Ventures Management Group plans to
announce next week a joint venture with shared workspace supplier Serendipity
Labs to grow the latter's presence and expand it into the hospitality sector.

Your
event is over. Everyone has gone home and you are thankful for the chance to
catch your breath. In fact, the last thing you want to do is even think about
the event. However, we all recognize that there is an enormous benefit to
conducting a...

Earlier
this year, Forbes rated event planner as the fifth most stressful job of 2014.
This ranking makes sense if you consider how the number of tasks a meeting
organizer needs to manage has increased during the past five years. The
position's responsibilities...

Sixty-six percent of the 200 event organizers who participated in Meeting Professionals International's second-quarter Meetings Outlook survey this year indicated they expected a year-over-year increase in virtual attendance, and more than half of...